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The problem of not owning your audience
Let’s talk about having social connections, but no control over those connections. Oh and also the purpose, for a game developer, of having a website. read more
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Remastering my classic games.. and why
Talking about the remastering process of some of my “classic” games. Why remaster the games and what does remastering, in this case, mean. read more
Self-promotion adventure for INDIE DEVS
This year (2018) I started with an attack on social media: going in full force to hopefully grow my audience, to share exclusive stuff with you guys, and to show more behind the scenes of Orangepixel game development. read more
Space Grunts on the move!
In case you missed it, you can finally take Space Grunts on the move! The iOS (get it here) and Android version (get it here) was released [..] read more
About PC and Mobile and revenue and stuff
The four phases of game development
Shine a light on it
Some people asked me how I “faked” the nice lights you see in Space Grunts with LibGDX. I originally used a combination of Box2DLights and Box2D , [..] read more
The full monty: Orangepixel
Sharing revenue information is hard, not sure why that is, I guess it’s something of a status symbol and telling other people opens you up to [..] read more
Soul crushing work
Having just released 2 games in 2 weeks on Steam, I had to rant about the soul crushing work of getting your games not talked about. read more
Full Steam
If you’ve been following my ramblings on Twitter you probably already know that most of my time has been put into getting more games on [..] read more
Automatic wall generation
Most of my games use some form of random level generation. I love the process of creating the code to make that work, and I love that [..] read more
Working down the ToDo list
A long to-do list was seriously shortened by a couple of productive weeks. Some major Steam game updates coming, a Chinese console, and more turns in Space Grunts read more
Lowering the pressure
Some might have noticed I haven’t uploaded any new video or other information for a few weeks now. It first started because I had some weird [..] read more
Turn based level generator
The theory behind the level-generator I’m creating for my turn-based rogue-like adventure read more
Thinking big, while staying small
Why are smaller developers not doing more with branding ? Branding is important, are you branding your games? let me know in the comments! read more
Maintenance of old games
A week of maintenance; where do you draw the line on supporting older games, and how much work is involved in updating older content read more
Apples rejection freaks me out
How an unchanged screenshot of Gunslugs 2, causes the update to not be allowed due to violence, blood, and gore.. read more
A new genre, taking time to fail
As people try to convince me to do something “out of my comfort zone” I take the challenge, and start something different read more
Searching for the next thing
So, what have you been up to!? me? I’ve been looking for a new game idea mostly! I haven’t been inactive while searching tho. I finally [..] read more
I got hate mail!
This was the first mail I found in the support box of Orangepixel this morning: Besides EA, you guys are literally the worst game developers [..] read more
Why not just release now?
Groundskeeper2 is done! and will be, if all goes to plan, released on April 9th! I got some questions from people asking my why I’m [..] read more
Heroes of Loot Figurines!!!!!
I’ve been busy doing a lot of interesting stuff that I can’t really talk about yet, because it’s all businessy things that will happen in [..] read more
Clash of creativity and business
Back in 2005 I started Orangepixel as a one-man company, and 8 years later it is still basically just that. I do use the skills [..] read more
Statistics and shit
I often get questions about “download statistics and income stuff”, and I never really give any answer because it feels strange to, basically, tell people [..] read more
App store reality show
It’s interesting to see; In the past few weeks I’ve been reading negative stuff in my twitter stream from “indie” developers about not making any [..] read more
Offering coffee
I read a lot of articles where game journalists/reviewers explain how game developers should handle the press and contact them. There are great tips in [..] read more
Reusing it
I’ve been working on Gunslugs for months now, and although I did do a couple of small prototypes in between it really started to annoy [..] read more
The trick of porting
I’ve just completed my “quest” on porting my latest game (Chrono&Cash) to HTML5 and actually in a shape that is fit for distributing and showing [..] read more
The middle road
There have been a bunch of articles posted lately talking about the failures of “indie development” and of course there was the release of “Indie [..] read more
